Inside Vance's unfiltered 'err on the side of openness' social media presence
Former Vice President Al Gore championed the development of the internet so enthusiastically that one of the first myths of the online era was that he claimed to have invented it.
Former Vice President Al Gore championed the development of the internet so enthusiastically that one of the first myths of the online era was that he claimed to have invented it.
It was in those early days of the world wide web that one of Gore’s successors came of age.
JD Vance grew up with chat rooms and email and instant messaging. He graduated into young adulthood at the dawn of blogging. He entered politics with a millennial’s fluency in social media.
Now, at 40, he is the nation’s third-youngest vice president — and, nearly a quarter-century after Gore left office, the nation’s first very online vice president. It’s a pioneering distinction that reflects the serious time and thought, as well as the debate-me vibes, that Vance puts into his interactions with others.
“I tend to err on the side of openness,” Vance said in a recent interview aboard Air Force Two. “That’s probably a generational thing, right? I come from a very tech-forward generation.”
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